Eight women have come forward with others as witnesses to accuse legendary Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman of sexual harassment and/or inappropriate behavior:
EXCLUSIVE: Eight women accuse Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior. They say it happened on movie sets, at his company and in interviews. https://t.co/IdIP1vAcSn pic.twitter.com/YuOo2BxyxW
— CNN (@CNN) May 24, 2018
According to the women, Freeman’s bad behavior was all done in “in front of witnesses — even in front of cameras”:
"The allegations against Freeman are not about things that happened in private; they are about things that allegedly happened in public, in front of witnesses — even in front of cameras." https://t.co/mnUrQtOker
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) May 24, 2018
One of the incidents was reported by CNN’s Chloe Melas who accused Morgan of harassing her while she was pregnant, telling her “you are ripe”:
Whoa. In her story, @Chloe_Melas describes this exchange she herself had with Morgan Freeman more than a year ago when she was six months pregnant. https://t.co/oWJX3MJmtp pic.twitter.com/EkSv31v4Bc
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) May 24, 2018
Another witness accused Freeman of just staring women up-and-down without saying anything:
There are a number of disturbing details in this deeply reported @CNN investigation into Morgan Freeman. This one stands out to me for being sa bold as it is creepy. https://t.co/HEUP4rtCG3 pic.twitter.com/bFTSArCzW8
— Amber Phillips (@byamberphillips) May 24, 2018
But is this all that unexpected from someone linked romantically with his step-granddaughter?
Given some of his previous statements and actions I’m not surprised…”Eight Women accuse Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior, harassment”https://t.co/X0beO1TMAJ
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) May 24, 2018
And it what could possibly be the worst-timed publicity stunt of the year, Visa paid Freeman to voice announcements on Vancouver’s metro trains:
You're right 🙂 TransLink did not pay any money for this. It's VISA that has collaborated with us to bring the ease and convenience of contactless payments to transit users across Metro Vancouver. Morgan Freeman is the voice of VISA. ^AK
— TransLink BC (@TransLink) May 24, 2018
Whoops.
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